Badsworth, West Riding

Description
Badsworth, a pretty village a township, and a parish in the W. R. Yorkshire. The township lies 5 miles S of Pontefract, and 2 from Hemsworth station on the G.N.R., and has a post office under Pontefract; telegraph office, Upton station, on the Hull and Bamsley railway. Acreage, 1546; population, 206. The parish includes also the townships of Upton and Thorpe-Audlin. Acreage, 8970; population, 702. Badsworth Hall is the seat of the Heywood-Jones family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of York; net value, £459 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Derby. The oldest part of the church is Transition and the later part Perpendicular. In the parish are three Methodist chapels.